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How to insert or embed an Outlook message in Excel?

Sometimes you want to embed an Outlook email message in a workbook. You may think of copy the email content and paste into workbook. However, after copying and pasting the email message from Outlook in Excel, the message is getting mess and total out of formatting. Actually, you can embed the email message as an object into the workbook as follows:

insert or embed an Outlook message in Excel as an object



insert or embed an Outlook message in Excel as an object

1. Firstly, you need to save an Outlook email which you need to insert into worksheet. Please select the email message in the Mail List in Outlook, then click File > Save As. And in the Save As dialog box, specify a folder for saving the email message, enter a name for the email as you need in the File name box, keep the Outlook Message Format - Unicode option in the Save as type drop-down list, and finally click the Save button. See screenshot:

2. Go to the Microsoft Excel workbook and open the worksheet that you will embed the email message in, then click te Insert > Object.

3. In the Object dialog box, go to the Create from file tab, click the Browser button to find and select the email message that you haved saved in Step 1. After selecting the email message and rerurning to the Object dialog box, click the OK button. See screenshot:

Then the specified email message is inserted into current worksheet as the following screenshot shown:

Note: In the Object dialog box, it is optional to check the Link to file option and the Display as icon option.

If you check the Link to file option in the Object dialog box, you will get an email message embedded in current worksheet as below screenshot shown, and the embedded email can be opened with double clicking.

If you check the Display as icon option in the Object dialog box, you will get an icon embedded in current worksheet as the following screenshot shown, and it also can be opened with double clicking.

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Guys, could you help and share how to add zip into spreadsheet?
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How do I add a new name and email address to a
Preexisting Excel spreadsheet with a list of current names and email
Addresses?
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Is there a way to do this with Excel in Microsoft Teams? As far as I know, this feature is NOT supported in Excel in Teams.
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Perfect instructions on how to link an email to a spreadsheet. Thank you!
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Can you please tell me how to break password using macro based file.
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Can you please share the trick to embed an email from outlook directly.
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Why so complicated???
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thanks!!! its a great help for me.
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Shift/print screen then paste in the cell.
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Dear Thanks its work 8) BR, Saqib
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